A place to share ideas, strategies, and news concerning Occupy Boston. The efforts on Wall Street are just the first step. The movement must spread beyond New York and promote the restoration of democracy to a country long ago sold out by government to large corporate interests.

Water. Water is becoming a major logistics problem as we grow. If you can drop some off we'll be very grateful. We will turn away water delivered in glass containers as those will shatter if the water freezes, but otherwise, we'd really love your help in staying hydrated.

Tent stakes: Skinny metal ones and wide plastic ones.

Non-disposable dish & cutlery: No glass. That's a safety hazard waiting to happen, and we're happy with our no-injury record so far.

Tables: Folding ones are a favorite.

Plywood and/or pallets: The ground here is muddy, and we make paths between the tents with this stuff. The stuff we have now is a) not quite sufficient and b) in bad condition.

Blankets: Yes, we still need these. We've received many donations, but we still need more. If you're planning to join us and take up residence, we recommend bringing two blankets for yourself, plus one additional blanket for every friend you'd like to make the instant you show up.

Warm gloves and hats: All types, all sizes. This isn't sexy but the weather's going to get increasingly cold as we stay here, and we'd like to keep moving things around and generally taking our hands out of our pockets on a regular basis. Also, heat escapes through the skull and such.

Safety vests: The kind you might wear if you were riding a bike or working a road late at night. Just a few.

Additionally, while food donations are still welcome (and we are head-over-heels in love with Food Not Bombs for all the help they've provided so far) we could use some extra bins to put some of this stuff in so as to disappoint the local rat population. Also someone kindly donated more apples than we can possibly eat before they go bad, so please, no more apples for a week or so.

We would not turn down some spare musical instruments if anyone wants to bring any, but this is not at all a "need".

So I've noticed in the free section of CL there's someone who's having a yard sale tomorrow and afterwards they're giving away whatever doesn't sell. Here is the listing on CL and having e-mailed the person about it this is the list of items they will have:

I won't be able to make it into the city to get this as I already have other plans and the seller said they wouldn't be willing to hold stuff until I'm able to get it on Sunday. The sale, however, is in Somerville so hopefully someone in the area can go pick anything we still need up from them. The sale goes from 9 am to 4 pm and the stuff will be free from 5 pm to 7 pm.

Additionally, I've been talking with a guy who's trying to sell 11 dry bags. He quoted me a price of $100 for all of them which seems like a decent deal. The two issues I have are that it's in Leominster which is somewhat far from me and I'm getting close to my budget for donations for this month. If we get other people to donate bins that's awesome, but if we still feel like we need these I can probably try to swing picking them up either sometime this weekend or early next week. If someone else wants to take this up just call it out here.

Finally, I can offer my services as a driver. I'll be coming down from Lowell on Sunday so if there's anything that needs picking up north of the city let me know and I'll grab it on my way. I've got a decent amount of cargo space in my car, but if it's something really big it would probably best be grabbed by someone with a truck or other large transport vehicle.

Perhaps it's worth contacting Zipcar and seeing if they would consider donating some free driving hours to a member of OB? After all, they started in Cambridge, so they might be somewhat sympathetic to the cause, nevermind the free press it would get them if local news stations picked up the story...

Please keep posting these lists. I originally saw Amanda Palmers pic of the needed list on Thursday to her Twitter page and immediately wondered why this wasn't done daily by someone. I can't occupy over night but I stop in every day and this would make it super easy for me to bring down supplies.

EDIT: It exists but only has 18 followers. Clearly this needs some more publicity. Here it is.